Bruckmanns Wrack,Kyle Cracked Refraction CD

Wrack skirts the boundaries of an ever-evolving music tradition hovering at the crossroads of other traditions. It is both a chamber ensemble with highly unusual instrumentation and a book of compositions tailor-made for the personalities of it's members. While the compositions' melodic and contrapuntal content is reminiscent of European-American classical modernism, their modular structures and improvisational procedures are heavily indebted to the innovations of the African-American Creative Music continuum. Oboist Kyle Bruckmann founded the project in Chicago in 2002. The current members of Wrack are: bass clarinetist Jason Stein, bassist Anton Hatwich, drummer Tim Daisy, and violist Jen Clare Paulson.

1. Exacerbator (5:45) 2. Notwithstanding (12:56) 3. Ratchetforms (9:13) 4. Fair to Middling (8:25) 5. The Dishevelator (7:13) 6. A Shambles (10:49) 7. NJBC (9:09)